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Workplace confidentiality: more about insisting on privacy!

  • Stewart McKelvey
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  • Canada
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  • May 8 2013

The common law privacy right, or the tort of intrusion upon seclusion, arrived in Canada with Jones v. Tsige. That case arose when a bank employee

Is Jacob to Laban as Weiner is to the Original Talk Radio Network?

  • Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 7 2013

Jacob was in love with Rachel, but he had a problem. What could he offer Rachel's father, Laban, for her hand? Not having much, he offered to work

Can employers ban tattoos and body piercings in the workplace?

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 28 2013

A recent labour arbitration decision addressed the question of whether an employer can prohibit employees from having "visible, excessive body

Connecticut appellate court reverses arbitration award that had reinstated nursing assistant, finding violation of public policy

  • Day Pitney LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 7 2013

Leoni Spence was a nursing assistant at Westport Health Care Center ("WHCC"), a residential nursing facility, from 2002 until her termination in

Bad-faith work refusal complaint to MOL justified discipline reinstatement denied

  • Dentons
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  • Canada
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  • April 30 2013

The work refusal provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act should not be abused, an arbitrator has effectively held in overturning an

Arbitrator upholds cause termination of 37-year employee due to safety violations

  • Heenan Blaikie LLP
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  • Canada
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  • April 25 2013

In the context of labour arbitrations, long service has often been a factor invoked by arbitrators to mitigate against serious disciplinary

Top 10 developmentsheadlines in trade secret, computer fraud, and non-compete law in 2012

  • Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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  • USA
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  • December 31 2012

As part of our annual tradition, here is our list of the top 10 developmentsheadlines in trade secret, computer fraud, and non-compete law for 2012

Substantive fairness overcomes elements of procedural unconscionability in mandatory arbitration agreement

  • Fenwick & West LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 14 2013

In yet another case addressing the enforceability of mandatory arbitration agreements in California, a Southern California federal district court in

Circulation of erotic pictures in the workplace: when the righteous end up righted

  • Miller Thomson LLP
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  • Canada
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  • December 11 2012

A substitute teacher recently won her legal battle against a Québec school board that withdrew her name from the substitute teachers’ list, invoking erotic pictures of her taken some eight years earlier

Arbitration agreement in employee handbook enforceable, California Court of Appeal rules

  • Jackson Lewis LLP
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  • USA
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  • May 2 2013

An arbitration agreement contained in an employee handbook was not invalid simply because the employer could change the handbook in its discretion